SSP is a simple idea (pictured above). By collecting
the sun's energy in high orbit, almost ten times as
much energy per panel - reliable, low-CO2
energy(graph right) can be collected. Rising
energy costs slow the economy through higher food,
transportation and goods costs. Growing global demand
for energy to keep our world running results in a
heavier environmental footprint, as we are forced to
environmentally and financially more challenging
fossil fuels. Transitioning energy production directly
to the sun is the best way to cleanly repower planet
Earth. We must add Space Solar Power (SSP), our best
energy alternative, to our energy mix.

Funds from the friends
and family of Bill Brown endowed and awarded the first
William C. Brown Fellowship in MPT. Ga Tech's
ECE Dept. awarded the first
William C. Brown Fellowship (Fall 2013). We would like to
increase the Fellowship's endowment.

Donna Salisbury, Bill
Brown's eldest daughter(far left), was joined by sister
Beth, Darel Preble(Space Solar Power Institute), Dr.
John M. Osepchuk, a distinguished engineer who gave
the keynote address,Blake Marshall ( the
inaugural recipient), Prof. Durgin and sister
Barbara. John was hired by Bill Brown and served as the Microwave
Power Journal's first editor.
Further history can be found on the Bill
Brown Memorial webpage. (Blake Marshall also
then led four undergraduate students in researching
"Adaptive Impedance Matching for 5.8 GHz Energy
Harvesting Circuitry", funded
by Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
(CHOA). Undergraduate microwave
harvesting teams took home two of the three
prizes in the 2014 Opportunity Research
Scholar's Competition.)

Wireless Power Transfer would gently beam SSP's
power to large, nearly transparent antennas that
would collect it on the ground, which could support
growing crops underneath. We have thousands of
satellites in orbit now - so we understand most of
the technology. Japan's USEF consortium has
a $2 Trillion yen project to build a prototype
SSP satellite by 2025.
The best pathway to initiating SSP construction is a
public/private corporation chartered by
Congress. Sunsat Corp would be modeled on Comsat
Corp, a previous public/private corporation, chartered
by Congress in 1962. Comsat created our very
successful global communications satellite industry.
Sunsat would create a power satellite industry.